EAC is now recruiting in earnest for up to 3 Housing Options Advisors to deliver a new national advice service for older people and their families. The service will cover the spectrum of housing options open to older people, with equal emphasis on ‘staying put’ and moving home. It will offer a combination of help […]

All of this information is available to view in the Accommodation section of this website, but our data products provide it in more convenient forms for professional users. Information about individual housing and care facilities We supply national, regional and local datasets showing details of individual housing schemes/developments and care homes. These are intended for […]

Covid-19 has brought to the forefront what the sector has known for years; housing and care for older people has long been under-invested. It requires a new way of joined up thinking to meet the needs and aspirations of older people, and their relatives, and realise the potential for growth in new age friendly homes. […]

Elderly Accommodation Counsel (EAC) is a national charity, set up in 1985. Its mission is to help older people make informed choices about meeting their housing and care needs. Over our early years we were able to develop and run a highly regarded Advice Line service, thanks to the generosity of many grant giving trusts […]

Legal & General’s Inspired Villages are creating a ‘virtual village centre’ on Facebook. James Cobb, Inspired’s Director, explains that the initiative is focussed on Holistic Wellbeing, and aims “to help the older generation stay mentally, socially and physically active as they adapt to the current situation”. The site will see more content added over the […]

New research into ‘traditional’ leasehold retirement housing shows that recently built properties, on average, increase their value upon resale. Drawing on available Land Registry data, matched to its own database of retirement developments, Elderly Accommodation Counsel (EAC) has begun to shed light on a topic that has raised questions from prospective purchasers for many years. […]

A record crowd of nearly 400 residents, visitors and staff from retirement housing complexes across the UK came together in Manchester on 21st May for the EAC National Housing for Older People Awards 2019. Visit our Housing Awards website at eacawards.org.uk to: See the 299 regional and 27 national winning schemes View hundreds of photos of the Awards event […]

Bookings for next month’s National Housing for Older People Awards in Manchester reached 250 today, suggesting that the event may turn out to be the largest to date. Very pleasingly, a little over half of attendees represent regional Award winning schemes, showing that this year’s decision to introduce a regional dimension to the Housing Awards has proved […]